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scan, v. 1. examine, study, scrutinize, inspect, sift; anatomize, probe, delve into, research; sound, investigate, search, explore, Archaic, indagate; overhaul, check; consider, take stock of, size up.
2. skim, read over, peruse, browse, dip into, have a look at, look over, run over, check over, review; thumb through, flip through, leaf through, look through, glance through.
scandal, n. 1. misdoing, evildoing, wrongdoing, transgression, malefaction, violation, crime, sin, offense, atrocity, delinquency, dereliction, disgraceful action, outrageous or flagrant misconduct or misbehavior, evil behavior, blameworthy action; political impropriety, unethical conduct; vice, wickedness, baseness, turpitude, depravity, corruption, iniquity, villainy; immodesty, impropriety, impudicity, indecency, lust, carnality, concupiscence, lewdness, lechery, debauchery, libertinism, dissipation.
2. commotion, disturbance, stir, affair, ado, furor, fuss, flurry, turbulence, turmoil, tumult, Inf. to-do, uproar, storm, explosion, hubbub, hullabaloo, SI. big stink.
3. disgrace, shame, dishonor, degradation, debasement, ill-repute, disrepute, reproach, ingloriousness; ignominy, infamy, odium, opprobrium, revilement, condemnation; censure, blame, inculpation, railing, commination, invective, curse, denunciation, contumely, malediction, animadversion, imprecation, delation, execration; discredit, disfavor, disrespect, disapproval, disapprobation, obloquy, disesteem, loss of face, fall, downfall, debacle, descent, (usu. political) Watergate; humiliation, humble pie, mortification; belittlement, disparagement, deprecation, detraction, deflation, depreciation, devaluation, derogation.
4. slander, libel, calumny, calumniation, misrepresentation, falsehood, lie, untruth, malicious falsehood or untruth, traducement; aspersion, imputation, insinuation, innuendo, Inf. brickbat, backbiting, malicious gossip, dirt, scandalmongering, abuse, injury, mud-slinging; slur, defilement, blot, blot on the escutcheon, smear, smirch, stain, taint, attaint, tarnish, spot, black spot or mark, blemish, smudge, brand, stigma, badge of infamy; defamation, denigration, vilification, vituperation, Inf. skeleton in the closet, yellow journalism, muckraking.
scandalize, v. 1. shock, outrage, appall, disturb, upset, jar, horrify; insult, affront, offend, raise eyebrows; abuse, injure, ill-treat, maltreat; gall, rankle, cause to stick in [s.o.'s] throat.
2. sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach, make one sick; repel, revolt, disgust, fill with loathing; shame, disgrace, dishonor, degrade, debase, abase, vitiate.
scandalous, adj. 1. disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, degraded, inglorious; infamous, ignominious, odious, opprobrious, contemptible, despicable, sordid, detestable; degenerate, depraved, unmentionable, corrupt, reprehensible, debased, abased, vitiated, iniquitous, immoral, profligate; horrible, heinous, vicious, atrocious, flagitious, Archaic, facinorous, felonious; base, vile, evil, infernal, sinister, diabolic, sinful, bad, wrong; low, arrant, nefarious, mean, dastardly, villainous, ignoble; denunciatory, damnatory, execrable, deplorable, reproachful, vituperative, invective, fulminating, objurgatory, imprecatory; disreputable, discreditable, disfavorable; belittling, disparaging, deprecatory, derogatory, detracting, deflating, depreciating, devaluating; humiliating, humbling, mortifying.
2. immodest, improper, fulsome, unseemly, unbecoming, indecorous; unworthy, undutiful, delinquent, objectionable, uncommendable, reprovable, peccable, illaudable; shocking, outrageous, notorious, flagrant; indecent, lewd, obscene, perverse, lustful, lascivious,
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